{"id":1157442,"date":"2020-08-21T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1157442"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:14:57","slug":"barcelona-transfer-list-players-who-could-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/barcelona-transfer-list-players-who-could-be-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep or sell? The 15 senior Barcelona players left off the ‘non-transferable’ list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona are looking to make some big changes this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After their first trophyless season for over a decade was capped by humiliating defeat in La Liga and the Champions League, a change has got to come to the Camp Nou. So far we’ve seen Quique Seti\u00e9n sacked and Ronald Koeman appointed in his place.<\/p>\n

Now comes the clear-out of players. Or that’s the intention, at least. President Josep Bartomeu declined to tender his own resignation but has basically offered up the futures of most of the first-team squad. He listed Lionel Messi, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Ter Stegen, Clement Lenglet, Nelson Semedo, Frenkie de Jong, Antoine Griezmann, Ansu Fati and Ousmane Dembele as ‘non-transferable’, suggesting that up to as many as 15 players could be for sale the club this summer.<\/p>\n

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So who should leave? Who should stay? We’ve had a look at all of the potential departures to decide if Barcelona should keep them, sell them, or release them.<\/p>\n

Gerard Piqu\u00e9<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Age:<\/strong> 33
\nAppearances:<\/strong> 543<\/p>\n

Gerard Piqu\u00e9 may take a while to really get started in a season, but once he does you can count the number of superior centre-backs on one hand with one finger (and no, it’s not Captain Madrid). Piqu\u00e9’s ability to read the game is supernatural. This is a slow(ish) defender who has played the last decade 40-50 yards from his own goal basically at all times.<\/p>\n

This is a man who spent most of the previous decade playing in between a 5’9 defensive midfielder and Dani Alves. No elite team exposes a defender quite as much as Barcelona expose Gerard Piqu\u00e9, yet for the most part the Blaugrana always have a solid defence because Piqu\u00e9 was there holding things together. He’s an absolute colossus and just as important as Messi to any and all of Barcelona’s success post-Tito Vilanova. Yes, he’s not as good as he was, but he’s still brilliant.<\/p>\n

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"Structurally, the club needs changes of all kinds because nobody is essential."<\/p>\n

"If new blood has to come and change this dynamic, I am the first to offer to go."<\/p>\n

"What is reflected on the field can no longer be covered up."<\/p>\n

Gerard Piqu\u00e9 has had enough. pic.twitter.com\/4V6FySJDVk<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawka (@Squawka) August 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n